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This was the core Donald Trump, Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw said in his assessment of Trumps Inaugural address.

It was the core Donald Trump, according to Brokaw in that it was a speech tailored to his constituents in Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia, among others, who may have lost their jobs.

And with the core Donald Trump comes the attacks on the political establishment. Including, Brokaw noted, members of Trumps own party.

His republican majority that he has in the House and the Senate, he just turned around and kinid of head-slapped them. Because he said These politicians in Washington, they just want to take, and they dont want to give you anything. That seemed to me a very hard door to open.

Brokaw recalled a moment during the campaign when Donald Trump visited Capitol Hill to meet with republican leadership.

The Senate leadership said he was pretty good at the beginning, and then when they said to him, Wed like to talk about some issues that we have for you, he said, No, no. Im not here about that. I put on a show. Thats why people this is a quote from somebody who was in the room, a senior member of the republican Senate leadership. I put on a show. You guys dont get me. So I see what he said today was put on a show for his core group who did get him there. But how you put the country back together again and get everybody moving the same way

Brokaw let his thought hang in the air before tossing to colleague Hugh Hewitt. Watch above, via NBC.

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